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    It is not the case that Treating all posited entities as equally genuine collapses the distinction between what exists and what merely subsists, undermining the explanatory work ontology is supposed to do.

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    • 1.The existence/subsistence distinction is itself metaphysically obscure and may merely relocate rather than solve the ontological problem.
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    • 2.Abstract objects like sets and propositions demonstrably do explanatory work in mathematics and logic despite lacking causal powers.
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    • 3.Positing equal ontological status allows unified frameworks (e.g., category theory) that prove more powerful than hierarchical entity classification.
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    • 1.Ontology's primary function is explaining why some things causally matter and others don't; equating all entities erases this distinction.
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    • 2.Numbers and fictional characters have fundamentally different modal properties than physical objects; treating them identically obscures real differences.
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    • 3.Distinguishing existence from subsistence preserves theoretical parsimony by limiting causal responsibility to entities that actually produce effects.
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